Author: Mario

Press Release 27 December 2017

FIS TOUR DE SKI FILLED WITH SUPERSKIERS
ITALY'S VAL DI FIEMME TO HOUSE THE FINALS

FIS Tour de Ski in Italy's Val di Fiemme on 6 and 7 January
Mass Start + Final Climb events to close the series
Ustiugov, Bolshunov, Pellegrino, Haag, Halfvarsson and Hellner already booked their bib
Val di Fiemme successfully hosted a Cross Country Training Camp with 13 nations

The 2017/2018 FIS Tour de Ski is about to kick off in Switzerland's Lenzerheide (next 30 December) and, as tradition goes, the curtains will close down in Italy's Val di Fiemme on 6 and 7 January 2018.
The Italian two-day event will offer one male and one female Mass Start competition at the XC skiing Stadium on day 1, while the spectacular Final Climb races up the Alpe Cermis will follow on Sunday. 
Some of world's top athletes already booked their TdS's bib. Reigning champion Sergey Ustiugov of Russia will be showing up along with teammates Alexander Bolshunov, Alexey Chervotkin, Andrey Larkov, Gleb Retivykh, Denis Spitsov, Alexey Vitsenko, Stanislav Volzhentsev and Ivan Yakimush, plus Yulia Belorukova, Mariya Guschina, Yana Kirpichenko, Anna Nechaevskaya, Polina Kekrasova, Natalia Nepryaeva, Elena Soboleva and Alisa Zhambalova, amongst women.
While waiting for Charlotte Calla's entry, Sweden already confirmed its top skiers at the start: Anna Haag, Maria Nordstroem, Jennie Oeberg, Evelina Settlin, Linn Soemskar, Emma Wiken, Calle Halfvarsson, Jens Burman, Marcus Hellner, Emil Joensson, Daniel Rickardsson and Oskar Svensson. 
The Italian squad will get in the starting grid with Federico Pellegrino, Dietmar Noeckler, Maicol Rastelli, Francesco De Fabiani, Giandomenico Salvadori, Greta Laurent, Lucia Scardoni, Elisa Brocard and two more to be announced.
A successful Cross Country Training Camp was held in Val di Fiemme a week ago, and athletes and coaches from 13 nations joined it. The two training sites of Passo Lavazè and Lago di Tesero housed sessions and seminars led by former Italian National Team head coach Alberto Rigoni. The Camp is part of the FIS Development Programme, whose scope is to improve developing ski nations’ own knowledge and competences. 
Info: www.fiemmeworldcup.com